Have a look at bojo trim tools from Ultracut Australia.
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Have a look at bojo trim tools from Ultracut Australia.
Well, it got the better of me!
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I had the local Ford dealer find the correct part, which was ordered late yesterday and was at the parts department by 9am this morning. Can't beat that for turnaround, not to mention not paying for shipping.
Those look very enticing, almost too many to chose from so I'm not sure where to start.
I have my eye on the new Detail Factory Pick Set, they haven't arrived in Australia yet though.
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I feel so much better now.....................
Black -
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River Rock Silver, not the contrast to the black switch levers -
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And what I would have preferred to include in the original post, the part number. If you have a PX MK III Ranger Wildtrak WITH 8-way powered seat but WITHOUT seat heating, you want the following part in black and NOT River Rock silver -
EB3Z 17A861 FH
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You would think that having done this before, removing the wrong part and putting the correct one on would have been easy. NO! :doh:
The incorrect part put up a fight and I broke one of the rear locator tabs, which is no matter because I have no use for it anyway. The new part went on pretty good but.....................then I realized I forgot to reattach the two screws that secure the adjustment module to the trim. Rookie!! :doh:
So, off the trim comes, screws reattached and then the fight started. :bash: I got the thing on again, but something didn't look right, and I somehow unhooked the front of base cushion from the seat frame. It was then I realized I hadn't slotted the front of the trim to the frame properly, so off it came again. I got everything lined up and clicked into place, I then had to fight that final screw to get it properly aligned.
What was going to be a 10-minute job turned into 45 minutes. :doh: A lot of that was moving the seat base and backrest up/down/backwards/forwards. It's at this point I have to wonder why powered seat bases are seen as a luxury, every movement takes far longer than a manual adjustment lever.
In any case, I don't mind, I think this is what they call a "learning experience".
I spotted that when zoomed in to see the color match of the replacement....
Those are not as easy as it looks - at least in the 1X I attempted it.
OCD kiddos rubbing the bottom on both rears. Decided to go all in and replace it all
It' just a rubber weatherstrip - 1 piece, with a metal flex channel-ish that -grips- the frame of the body.
Out of frustration, I ended up removing it and buying another brand new set and brought it my Indy to have him deal.
Upon pickup, he himself said it's a bit tricky to lay it down
Basically you lay the new weatherstrip roughly in the opening and you press it in.
The issue is if while it appears even and you press it in, slowly from one corner and going 360.....sometimes when you get close to the end, you have too much dang material that it won't press it flush, so you to to -readjust- the strip so more material is where you pressed in it. However, in my case, once you have pressed it it, to some degree some of the the metal channel doesn't sit at tight once agin once you remove and re-press it back into the frame.
Hopefully you will have better luck that I did with that
In an OEM environment those seals are installed with a pneumatic palm hammer.
Kinda like this:
Pneumatic Hammer for Trim | Palm Air Hammer | Trim-Lok
Thx. Issue is not seating it.
Just setting the pre-formed weather ship evenly and pressing it in so it sits evenly was my issue.
What appears trivial on procedure was not quite what I expected.....along with buying a whole new 2nd set of weatherstrips + subbing it to a Indy